After more than 20 years of rapid development, the Chinese automobile industry has attracted worldwide attention, with its production and sales volume ranking first in the world, as well as its car parc exceeding 200 million units. The automobile industry has become a pillar industry of the national economy. Through several years of efforts, Chinese indeginous car brands’ products competitiveness has been well cumulated and their market share which is constantly increasing has taken up 1/2 worldwide. In the field of new energy vehicles, the development of both complete vehicle and components and the exploration of business models are full of innovation.

In the future, China’s auto industry is entering a new era of the transition from a large automobile country to a powerful automobile country, accompanied by a new era of comprehensive industrial transformation. The global automotive industry has entered the era of major changes in electrification, low carbonization, light weight, intelligence, networking, and shared development. Countries are increasingly subject to stringent regulatory requirements. The Chinese market is under the pressure when the limit on foreign ownership of joint venture is relaxed and the vehicle import tax is reduced. The new situation has brought great impacts and challenges on China's auto industry, while it has given birth to tremendous opportunities for development.

As President Xi Jinping pointed out at this year’s conference of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering: “Since the beginning of the 21st century, global scientific and technological innovation has entered an unprecedented intensive and active period. A new round of scientific and technological revolutions and industrial changes are reconstructing the global innovation and reshaping the global economic structure. Science and technology have never as profoundly affected the country’s future and destiny as it has today, and have never as profoundly affected the well-being of the people as it is today.”Technological innovation is also more powerful than ever to drive the transformation and revolution of China's auto industry. It is bound to be a powerful driving force for China's auto industry to achieve leapfrog development. Only through the strategic collaboration between components suppliers and automakers as well as active technological innovation to jointly create the core competitiveness of Chinese indeginous car brands , can seize a historic opportunity and cope with various challenges,so as to shape and enhance brand value, achieve sustainability andStrengthen the development. This is also the original intention of the Automotive Group of the Thousand People Project Experts Association in launching the China Automotive and Environment Innovation Forum in 2013. The forum has so far been successfully held for five times.

The Innovation Forum in China’s Auto and Supplier’s Industry, ranked as one of the most professional and influential forums. 2018 Auto and Environment Forum, will be based on the development target of Made in China (2025). With the theme of "Innovation-Driven, Technology-Leading," we will invite 100 government leaders, academicians, leaders of the society, executives of the company, experts of the "Thousand Talents Program", and experts in the industry to discuss the collaborative innovation and development of OEMs and components manufacturers in the auto industry, and create thetechnical development for product core competitiveness. In addition, the forum will include six parallel technical forums that will fully cover the research and discussion in the automotive industry technology field. It aims to further promote the exploration of technology development trends between automakersand components suppliers, , strengthen the interaction between experts in the automotive industry andenhance the communication among the Thousand Talents auto group， automakers and components suppliers, and build a cooperation platform to promote the transformation and upgrade of auto parts industry through activities, and build a more competitive and zero-collaborative innovative relationship to help realize the transformation to a strong automobile country.